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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Your Old Woolens Go Into New RUf Prisoners in U. S. Americans Improves Conditions for Captured Generous Treatment of Axis Allied Command Aided By French Underground Red Cross Reports Men in Nazi Hands Well Fed and Housed France Said to Be Ready, Anxious and Able to Bear Arms Against Germans. Quarter of Million Men in ... WNU Staff CorresDondent In some 30,000 families our land today throughout By BAUKIIAGE folks are thinking of some the News Analyst and Commentator. from home who has soldier occupied French territory as it is libWNU Service, Union Trust Building fallen into enemy hands now erated, piece by piece; also of creWashington, D. C. a prisoner of war far away. Arms are what we want, arms, ating the machinery for the our troops make the When which will decide perplebescite main-lan-d arms, arms! manent government. great push against thewill be My companion leaned across the of Europe, there table and pounded it with Gallic Great Difficulties more boys taken prisoners. fervor, his black eyes flashing. The committee itself works under more camps within the-fin- It was our first meeting for than a year, and I knew that those eyes fixed on me so earnestly had met the light of the desert sun, for he had fought with the Free French forces under De Gaulle in Africa and had had many an adventure serving his country abroad before be returned for this visit to his temporary home. We have a quarter of a million men in the French underground, ready, willing, able and anxious to bear arms only one out of 20 of those has a single firearm, and that means that while 12 men can har-ras- s the German forces, as they ?re doing every day and every night, despite their inadequate help from the outside, 228 others must sit, twiddling their thumbs. They are getting very tired of waiting but their ennui would leave them if firearms could be put in their hands. If America will provide them, we will guarantee to get them into France, we will guarantee to transport them and distribute them." It is very difficult to write of that shadowy world, the European underground, for even the few scraps of Information which one might piece together make a dangerous pattern which might bring swift enemy reprisal. There Is no question about the efficiency and the effectiveness of this silent army in France, In all the occupied countries for that matter. There is no question about the fact that through it flows a steady stream of information out of the heart of the enemy territory right back to the Allied high commands. s of the Creusot Today factories, once the makers of the famous French 75s, long a vital source of the German arms supply, have been put out of commission by a group of loyal Frenchmen, according to a story that is now current in Washington. two-third- Few Involved They did it at very little expense, few men were involved, and not a single civilian life was lost. They did it by blowing up a key dam and thus cutting oft the electric power from the plant At least three expensive Allied air raids, long and carefully planned, had failed to destroy this dam. Not long ago, word came to an- other group of these French guerrillas that a German munition train was about to move over a certain stretch of track. The bolts were removed and the rails spread. Then came the word that ahead of the munition train was a passenger train. Immediately men were sent out to flag the passenger train and order it to slow down while other men worked feverishly to put back the bolts. The passenger train went on safely. Once more, the bolts were withdrawn and before long, the munition train was a wrecked and smoking mass. No French civilian had been injured. Less dramatic is the thankless and difficult task which the French National Committee of Liberation has before it, attempting to work out wth the provisional assembly, the machinery for administering the areas of France as they are liberated by the Allied armies. The committee must labor in an atmosphere of deliberation and enforced delay which the mood of the underground finds it hard to grasp. The members of the French National Committee of Liberation, with headquarters in Algiers, have gradually achieved more and more authority Under the Allies. There have been many obstacles to overcome and the French, of course, feci that they have not been given the free hand which they desired and deserved. However, within recent weeks, it has been evident that the Allies are changing their policy and it is now taken for granted that representatives of this committee, and later the provisional assembly, which meets in Africa, and which is made up of persons representing various groups In France, will be given the responsibilities of administering the re 15 RIE F S There are 1.700,000 rural boys and girls 10 to 21 years old who are now memheis of 4 11 clubs. They he in every county in the United , Hawaii and Pueito Whites, Ala-sna- Rico. The vwir department has revealed that the army air forces have 40 per cent of Germanys capacity to produce fighter planes. great difficulties. Many of the mem- bers are utterly inexperienced in politics and they have responsibilities much greater than a normal governmental body would have. They must serve as an administrative agency, they must serve as a quasi - legislative body, and they must likewise plan regulations governing procedure in the interim between liberation of France and the time when a free election is held. The recent meeting of the assembly (February 29) began the long and complicated consideration of the plans for the provisional government. One typical plan suggested can now be described in some detail although, of course, it is likely to be modified as a result of the discussion in the coming weeks and months, and in its application thereafter. It covers, roughly, two phases. First, is partial liberation. Just as soon as the Allies have taken over a portion of France and the military organization moves forward, the French committee would be placed in charge under this plan. Immediately municipal officers would be selected, councils for each municipality. When an entire province has been taken over, each municipal council already functioning would select delegates to the assembly now existing in Algiers. There are, at present, about 110 members of this assembly, composed of Frenchmen who have been selected by the underground organizations, by political organizations and by labor and other groups, and have been smuggled into Africa. They would be joined, or perhaps substituted by, the newly elected delegates chosen by the municipal groups of each province. There would be approximately one for each 100,000 inhabitants. Finally, the day comes when Allied troops march down the Champs Elysees and across the Seine to the Place du Palais Bourbon. Then the ancient building, which housed the chamber of deputies of the Third Republic, wall open Its doors to the new assembly. By this time, it will probably represent at least of France. two-thir- Second Step Now the second step of the plan, now considered, will be taken. The assembly will have reached, depending on the populations liber- members. ated, some Then the provisional government (I use the word "government" in the European sense; we would call it the cabinet" with an executive head) would be chosen by the assembly. The national committee would cease to be the executive body but would assist the assembly, under this chosen government, to work out the plan for the general election which would decide upon the form of government which France would have. However, this election could not be held at once for the thousands upon thousands of Frenchmen taken from their homes for forced labor in Germany and elsewhere would have to be repatriated first. Every attempt is now being made to carry out the preliminary plans for procedures in the spirit, if not exactly m accordance with the letter of the French constitution and law. There are, however, many practical difficulties which arise. Take the question of woman suffrage. Under the French constitu-tion- , women are not permitted to vote. However, at present, with most of the men away in the army or as deportees in Germany, the women make up the majority of the population. Therefore, it would be desirable for them to cast the ballot in order to get a true representative opinion of any locality. Meanwhile, the cry of the loyal Frenchman, in and out of his country, is for arms and ammunition, dynamite and the other tools ol sabotage and demolition with which they believe they can vitally disrupt communications and assist the 400 i invasion. j In the war prisoner the United States, we hold some 175,000 enemy . soldiers captured mostly on the battlefields of Africa, Sicily and Italy. Of these, 125,000 are Germans, 50,000 Italians. Only 116 are Japanese. Many protests have been made to army authorities, because of the good treatment given these prisoners. Lots of people dont understand why enemy prisoners should be given the same comforts, the same medical attention, the same food as our own soldiers. But there is a reason so compelling, that none can complain when it is understood. It is not for the sake of the prisoners, but in the interest of our own soldiers held by the enemy. They are the real object of our forbearance and solicitude. And, of course, our national honor is involved, for we agreed to give prisoners the same food and care as our own men under the Prisoners of War convention signed and ratified at Geneva on July 27, 1929. Reciprocal Good Treatment. Reliable reports made to the army indicate that the good treatment we have accorded prisoners has won for our own men in German prison camps conditions that are at least as good as those under which German soldiers live. These facts were revealed for the first time to your correspondent by Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion, provost marshal general of the army, who has general supervision over prisoners of war. The actual guarding of the prisoners is a function of the prison camp commander who is under the control of the commanding general of the service command. Censorship reveals that letters from relatives and friends express much gratitude and happiness over the way we are treating their men. We are informed by the International Red Cross that the Germans say that because of our good treatment of their soldiers, they are giving our men more liberties and better treatment, General GulThe lion told your correspondent. Geneva conventions required that each prisoner be given the same food as soldiers of the capturing power receive in base camps. According to the reports of Swiss observers, the Germans are living up to this provision; our men in some instances are getting even a little better food than the German soldiers, although the German facilities do not compare with ours. I think there can be only one answer to the complaint that we are treating the prisoners we take too well. One gets it when one asks the question: Is it better to yield to a very natural, vengeful impulse to take it out on our prisoners, or to observe our treaty agreements and protect our own men? ' Few Escape. There have been complaints also that the prisoners we hold have not been sufficiently guarded; that too many have escaped to become a menace to the home population. General Gullion points to the facts. Of the 175,000 prisoners we now hold In this country, about 100 have escaped, but all except three have been recaptured and are in custody. The only men at large are two Ital- - FEW JAP to N0'scrapis oftheoldtime woolen goodT They tell you it actually happened. He was managing ediI dunno tor for a New York syndicate. Now with OWI . . . Several years ago a comic atrip was submitted to him Recommended . . . He liked it. It for syndication . . . The boss to whom he delivered It took it home . . . Next day he memod it wouldnt do. The kids he showed it to didnt eare for it, he said . . . The young cartoonists were disappointed, of course . . . They finally got their strip started in a cheap comic weekly for practically nothing per week . . . Every year they brought it back to the m.e., who liked it, but he couldnt get it on his chain . . The boss still didnt like it . . . Another syndicate made an offer, but the boys gave the m.e. another chance . . . They were turned down It now grosses $5,000 per week via royalties from newspapers, radio snd gadget makers . . . The first lyndicate boss, who spumed it so many times, demanded to know what happened . . . The strip is the renowned "Superman. By BARROW LYONS ... ... Production of piewar models ol all metal domestic ice refrigerators will not be resumed in the near future. tlie WPB repoils, mainly because reversion would uivulve a long change-ove- r period. Civilians in the U. S. will have more frozen vegetables during the next five months, as a result of an expected recoid high produeion. 51! Rtle E.I jsevi lies enoi that fiOARK ft LIGHT RED ROSE Kl AMD hootm pile RUS FOUGHT-MEDIU- ' tire trav RED-- 3 oesisn adapted from AND DARK BLUE if BACKGROUND LIGHT AND DARK TAN two : Iran CHINTZ t ps throu these may be made into handsc hooked rugs that you will be pr ,flc enter ront The square rug in the ske was designed to fit in a sir dressing table corner. The r design in the cli skirt and window valance t copied in making a border center flower for the rug. and-ribbo- i r.ent to owrn. n NOTE: This illustration is from which also gives directions for other rag rugs that you may male.t Hrely from things on hand, as wel directions for making slip covers art modeling old furniture. To get cop BOOK 10 send 15 cents direct to: He is a nice kid Always laughing He worked for an id agency before the war started, where they used to kid him a lot beMRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS cause he liked colorful cravats and Bedford Hills New hn No zoot suiter, more apparel Drawer 10 Lucius Beebe . . . One day they Enclose 15 cents for Sewing nearly drove him out of the place No. 10. because he turned up wearing a Name olored vest . . . Then came Address The first German soldier to be taken prisoner in Iceland was Ser- the draft, and he was among the . . After 17 geant Manfrak, who bailed out of his Junkers plane after it had been hit very first accepted . showed he in action months up again enIs He S. shown at U. by intelligence headquarters, army fighters. his joying the rations on the tray before him, despite a bandaged arm and . . . Now, wherever he goes, reold pals show him considerable numerous bruises. spect, even though he wears purple ians who escaped from a branch . . On his chest. camp at El Paso, part of the Lords-burN. M., camp, and one German ROSE His lifes ambition was to be a who got away at Crossville, Tenn. name bandleader . . . Studied alThere has been complaint from He finalmost every instrument UP organized labor lately because we ly became one of the great arranghave used some of the war prisonDoughboys of the Seventh infantry ers, instead . .He couldn't front ers for tasks in lumber camps and division who captured Kwajalein for a band, It seems . . . Wasnt on road work, where there was no and other islands of the So he Kwajalein the type, the agents said Put American labor available. General atoll during the invasion of the Mar- was hired as head arranger for a nostril. It (1) shrinks swollen Gullion gives labor assurance that shall islands literally had to dig the well known orchestra . . . The leadmembranes, (2) soothes irritation, of not war are being put Japanese out of the ground. Col. er of which was a front man beprisoners (3) relieves transient nasal coto work on any job where civilian Syril E. Faine, infantry, of New cause be looked it . . . The front ngestion . . . and brings greats labor is available in adequate sup- Straitsville, Ohio, who is now in the man could never read a note of mubreathing comfort. Follow the complete Prisoner of war labor is a United States, acted as ply. mans a had baton he but perchief sic, deputy temporary expedient to relieve the of staff of the division during the . . . y is whatever that sonality, existing shortage of rhan power. campaign. He said the Japa- Each performance the arranger The United States agreed at the nese defenders of the stood backstage and saw the leadGeneva convention to return all coral base had taken in hun- er take the bows for his work . . . refuge Early Stained Glass prisoners of war to their own coun- dreds of shell craters by the time Not long ago the arranger (who The first stained glass in k, tries at the conclusion of the war, the first waves of hit the knows nearly every instrument) was lea was made by Evert Duyck infantry hence the fear of competition with shore on January 31 (February 1, Inducted. Because of his musical of Holland, on Long Island in !i free labor is groundless, the gen- Pacific time). background, by golly, he was made eral says. It was just like killing rats, he army bandleader, a commission due Protect and ease sbnr IF. Prisoners Cut Pulpwood. declared. The whole island was soon. The bandleaders front man skin with Meisana, Prisoners have been in logging rubble, after the preliminary bomb- was drafted a few weeks ago . . . soothing, medicated p' CHAFE der. Also relieve bun.: operations where American workers ing and shelling. The Japs had You guessed it . . . Hes a private ANNOYS itching, of irritated a. have left the woods to work in shipcrawled underground wherever they In the infantry still trying to keep In time! and machine much at and the to shops had yards could, infantrymen higher wages, he explains.. They stop at every hole and fire down have been useful in cutting and into it, or throw grenades into it. New York Novelette: She was a FACTS peeling pulp logs needed critically waitress in a small Midwest hotel Possum. Playing for containers in civilian industry ABOUT The Japanese were up to their . . . Because her feller played In and for newsprint, of which there the band . . . One day a stranger usual on went Colonel nasty tricks, is a shortage. Prisoners have been RUBBEB Faine. Even after they were hope- offered her a screen test chance . . . used also in maintaining roads in She . . . She wanted to it spumed some areas where other manual la- lessly defeated, they refused to give be near her Joe hoping hed ask her up. At one point in the action, an borers are very scarce. The treAll uvasudden American aid station was estab- to marry him of mainmendous importance road her Josephus wrote one of those lished close a to of three appile tenance, in view of the heavy trafMore than 25 American autparently dead Japs. Only two of screwy nonsensical national anathefic, is obvious. mas which the omotive companies are making periodically sweep it turned out, were really United Prisoners have been used also in them, The third, at the bottom of land . . . So he upped and left for military vehicles for Ailie dead. laundries. Nearly everyone today our and The be. . soldiers . States Big Burg Leaving her has suffered inconveniences because the heap, pulled himself up after hind, of course . . , Two months and they have first tall of the shortage of laundry labor, playing possum for a long time and later she followed her broken and other rubber items tires heart one ineffectual shot at ap and can understand this expedient. fired . . . New York he bluntly told In ho American officer. Other Japs blew Forty thousand odditionalmilo The story of Japanese prisoners themselves her that his plans did not include been obtained from Individual tirei with grenades. up is less happy. When a Japanese In use at Camp Stoneaian bau The landing on the Marshalls, her. He said he was waiting for a soldier is taken prisoner he is of the who movie campaign In fora was him agent bringing washed up he never wishes to re- Colonel Faine said, was preceded a contract for Hollywood any mothere since rubber became scores No tricks (ust plain tire eare an turn to Japan for he is disgraced by one of the most intensive bom- ment and would she please leave? recapping at the right time. forever in the eyes of his country- bardments of the war. Both army . . . She found herself staggering and and navy planes participated, men. down the hall towards the elevators, electric magnet An We have in this country scarcely later, warships pounded the Jap de- where out stepped the electric truck who ofan attached to guy One fenses. on the Wotje fered airstrip more than a hundred Japanese prisof a mfloors the screen test back the home! He "sweeps" was so chopped up, atoll Colonel oners, and General MacArthur has unitions factory of steel Mtw her and no had trouble recognized Faine said, "that not only couldnt and serves the double p only a few hundred more, accordthe Japs get a plane off it, but you selling Hollywood to her right there Gullion. to General . . . You anticipate me . . . Her ing pose of salvaging inetol couldn't even have run a wheelbarpreventing tire punctures, Joe still Is waiting for the same They are given the same food row along It. and accommodations as our own agent with his movie contract and Amphibious Warfare. soldiers, because we hope by acwondering whatinell happened? The aerial hammering kept up as cording such treatment to ameliorate the lot of our own 18,500 men the invasion armada, containing Quotation Marksmanship: Mark more ships than there were in our held by the Japanese. Twain: was to Imagination given whole navy at the start of the war, man to compensate him for what swept over the horizon. As the he is not; and a sense of humor was landings started, Seventh division into console him for what he provided fantrymen who had received special is . . . Karen Cooper: In war, as amphibious training drove their own In PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY U. S. those who do the strikbaseball, and ducks toward alligators are against the men who are in shore, and later ferried supplies ing back and forth from the mother there pitching . . . Louis Nizer: I dont like people who smoke a pipe ships. of peace only for tlie purpose of creThe doughboys had relatively easy . . . H. Whitating a smoke-scree400 going when they first hit the beaches man: Billions of Jack Frosts paraadvancing 1,300 yards on the first troopers descended upon New York On the second day,day. they began A. 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